Enhanced Employer Support Facilitator

Join the YMCA Employment Services Team
Be the Spark Join our professional and passionate team and be the spark that ignites the potential in others.
Our culture is of paramount importance to us. We formally measure employee engagement annually to ensure our employees are having an excellent employment experience. Our current level of engagement is 80%, compared to some Canadian employer statistics of 69%.
YMCA of Southwestern Ontario was founded in 1856 and has over 200 locations from Goderich to Point Pelee, and Windsor to Woodstock. We are one of the largest not-for-profit providers of licensed child care in Canada and have over 100 school age programs across our regions. We also offer settlement services to newcomers, employment programs, mental health support, and youth programs. YMCA of Southwestern Ontario operates two overnight camps, one in Point Pelee National Park, and one on Beausoleil Island in Muskoka. We also have 15 Health & Fitness branches across Southwestern Ontario.
Why The Y?
At the Y, our people are central to delivering our mission. We are committed to the development of healthy communities and welcome people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and abilities.
We provide valuable training and development opportunities to help our team members grow professionally and personally.
We look for the following qualities in all of our employees and volunteers:
Demonstrates our Core Values; Caring, Honesty, Respect & Responsibility and Inclusivity
- Fun, Enthusiastic & Friendly Individuals
- Hardworking and Dependable
- Positive Role Model
- Team Player
- Professionalism
- Enjoy working in a Social Environment
- Ability to effectively communicate with Employees & Members

Employees and volunteers of YMCA of Southwestern Ontario are ambassadors for the Y both on and off the job. We rely on them to help share our mission and increase awareness of the positive impact the Y can have on the lives of people in their communities. Particularly how we are helping to create healthy children, healthy families, and healthy communities.
**Position**: Enhance Employer Support Facilitator
**Location**: 101 Courthouse Lane, Chatham
**Start Date**: June 2, 2025
**Salary**: $57,345.60 Annually
**As part of your total compensation**:

- Receive a complimentary YMCA membership to our Health & Fitness facilities, and discounts on YMCA child care and camp programs
- Vacation entitlement in accordance with the employment standards regulations
- May be entitled to up to 12 paid personal days - applicable with position and contract length
- Benefits package - applicable with position and contract length
- Be part of a caring and supportive network of people to help each other succeed
- Complimentary access to wellness and counselling services

**In this role, you will**:

- Network with the local employer community to assist individuals with self
- identified disabilities who have little or no labor force attachment to obtain employment. Once employment is obtained employers are supported via education and on-site monitoring to ensure successful accommodations of employees with exceptionalities
- Employer Support Facilitator is responsible for networking with the local employer community to assist individuals with self
- identified disabilities who have little or no labor force attachment to obtain employment. Once employment is obtained employers are supported via education and on-site monitoring to ensure successful accommodations of employees with exceptionalities
- Identify participants’ needs in conjunction with both Employability Skills Developer to assist participants in determining employment support needs and in utilizing and maximizing wage incentive funds to participants
- Organizing information sessions or workshops to better prepare the employer and staff to work with persons with disabilities (e.g. providing information to support the integration of persons with disabilities into the workplace and on the rights of persons with disabilities to appropriate accommodations and on existing and upcoming legislation)
- Promoting strategies, programs and tools available to employers to help them integrate potential employees with disabilities
- Providing alternative employer supports, such as management coaching, employee training and human resources support, to improve an employer's capacity to hire and retain persons with disabilities
- Developing employer policies and procedures to integrate prospective employees with disabilities
- Providing technological aids to accommodate persons with disabilities within the workplace; and, providing services to employers to aid with the hiring of persons with disabilities (e.g. interpretation services for the deaf for interviews)
- Assist in the recruitment of eligible participants and in the development of their individualized Employment Action Plans (EAP)
- Provide one-on-one supports to participants requiring employment advice/guidance during their employment opportunity
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